He posted one of the photos that caused concern for Ricky’s mum. Last year his parents revealed they had not spoken to him for three years after pictures were published showing him snorting cocaine in a hotel room.

Dad Ray, who was Ricky’s trainer when he became world champion at welterweight and light welterweight four times, said they had no clue Ricky was on drugs.

Last year Carol said: “We asked him and he looked us in the eye and told us he wasn’t doing drugs.”

Ricky hit back at his parents in his book War And Peace: My Story, even revealing he and his dad came to blows during a row.

He wrote: “I am not going to go into details because the two people who matter – me and him – know exactly what happened and why it is an issue.”